Product Program year 2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

Automatic Continuous Effusion Shunt (ACES) System

Device pleural-peritoneal shunt

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General payments

$32,565

32 payments

Research payments

$0

0 payments

Through program year 2025, $32,565 in general payments and $0 in research payments were reported against Automatic Continuous Effusion Shunt (ACES) System (pleural-peritoneal shunt).

No combined total These are different kinds of money, reported under different rules. A meal and a clinical trial grant do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

By program year

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Year Kind Amount Payments
2025 General $32,565 32

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program year 2025
  1. Pleural Dynamics Inc. $32,565 32 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2025
  1. Jason Akulian Pulmonary Disease · Baltimore, MD $9,483 29% · 5 payments
  2. Lonny Yarmus Pulmonary Disease · Baltimore, MD $8,475 26% · 5 payments
  3. Jeffrey Thiboutot Internal Medicine · Baltimore, MD $7,963 24% · 4 payments
  4. Fabien Maldonado Pulmonary Disease · Nashville, TN $2,133 7% · 3 payments
  5. Mark Block Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Hollywood, FL $1,926 6% · 4 payments

The top 5 of 14 recipients; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025.

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Specialties paid General payments · program year 2025
  1. Pulmonary Disease Internal Medicine $21,934 67% · 7 practitioners
  2. Internal Medicine $8,306 26% · 3 practitioners
  3. Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $2,185 7% · 3 practitioners
  4. Diagnostic Radiology Radiology $139 <1% · 1 practitioner

Each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2025. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

Where the money went General payments · program year 2025
  1. Maryland $17,804 55% · 5 recipients
  2. New York $8,475 26% · 1 recipient
  3. Florida $2,185 7% · 3 recipients
  4. Tennessee $2,133 7% · 1 recipient
  5. Wisconsin $1,555 5% · 1 recipient

The top 5 of 8 states; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025 where a state was reported.

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Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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